Even if the specs are the same than NVIDIA reference board, it’s a customized RTX 2070. The board is compact (a bit less than 23cm) and MSI has added its cooling know-how to this card. This RTX 2070 is cooled by two TORX fans (v2.0) that provide a quiet and efficient cooling.

More marketing information can be found on the RTX 2070 Ventus homepage.

2 – Gallery

The box!

The bundle: the graphics card, an install doc and a CDROM. A simple bundle for a simple RTX 2070!

The RTX 2070 Ventus!

No multi-GPU support for the RTX 2070: the card does not have a NVLink connector. This connector is reserved to RTX 2080 / 2080 Ti.

The rear face of the PCB is protected by a plastic (or something similar) backplate:

4.10 – MSI Kombustor 2017 – TessMark X32 OpenGL

MSI Kombustor 2017 (v0.6.2.0) is the new version of MSI Kombustor. For this test, I used TessMark X32 which is an OpenGL 4.0 tessellation benchmark with a tessellation level of 32. You can download MSI Kombustor 2017 from THIS PAGE.

5 – Burn-in Test

As usual, the first thing to do before running a stress test is to set to the max the power target limit. I used MSI Afterburner for this job. The RTX 2070 Ventus has a max power limit of 105% TDP. This card is not designed for overclocking. So I set the power limit to 105% TDP using MSI Afterburner. If you don’t set the power limit to the max, the GPU is throttled when FurMark is running.

A rough estimation of the power consumption of the RTX 2070 Ventus is:

– at 105% TDP
P = (263-37-25) * 0.9P = 180W

where 0.9 is the efficiency factor of the Corsair AX 860i PSU and 25 is an estimation of the additional CPU load (when one thread is running at 100% on the Core i7-8700K) when FurMark is running.

These numbers looks coherent with the maximum power limit of 185W.

The GPU temperature reached a max value of 67°C which is very nice. The VGA cooler of the RTX 2070 Ventus cooled the GPU correctly and, moreover, it does it without too much noise. Great!

Thermal imaging

idle state

load state

6 – Conclusion

The GeForce RTX 2070 and the GeForce GTX 1080 are neck and neck. In some tests, the RTX 2070 is a little bit faster and in other ones, the GTX 1080 is ahead.

The RTX 2070 Ventus is absolutely quiet at idle. There is no 0dB technology, the fans are always spinning but at idle state, they are really noiseless. Under heavy we can easily hear them but the noise is more than acceptable. Once again, MSI did a very good job with the VGA cooler.

I will test RTX features such as realtime raytracing later, in another article. For a simple reason: currently there is no real demo or test about RT (NVIDIA, where are your cool tech-demos?).

This RTX 2070 Ventus is a basic Turing-based graphics card. If you need a recent GeForce that works quietly, has enough processing power, has a compact design, has the latest features such as tensor cores (for DLSS antialiasing) and or RT cores (for realtime raytracing) and does not look like a Xmas tree, the RTX 2070 Ventus is a good choice.